TY - JOUR AU - Luykx, Atul AU - Mennink, Bart AU - Neves, Samuel PY - 2016/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Security Analysis of BLAKE2’s Modes of Operation JF - IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology JA - ToSC VL - 2016 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.13154/tosc.v2016.i1.158-176 UR - https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/540 SP - 158-176 AB - BLAKE2 is a hash function introduced at ACNS 2013, which has been adopted in many constructions and applications. It is a successor to the SHA-3 finalist BLAKE, which received a significant amount of security analysis. Nevertheless, BLAKE2 introduces sufficient changes so that not all results from BLAKE carry over, meaning new analysis is necessary. To date, all known cryptanalysis done on BLAKE2 has focused on its underlying building blocks, with little focus placed on understanding BLAKE2’s generic security. We prove that BLAKE2’s compression function is indifferentiable from a random function in a weakly ideal cipher model, which was not the case for BLAKE. This implies that there are no generic attacks against any of the modes that BLAKE2 uses. ER -